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The year is 2100. Earth is no longer ours. Fifty years ago, an alien race brought humanity to its knees. What remains of us now hides in The Edge, a mirrored illusion of Earth, controlled by fear, lies, and silence. I was born in hiding. Raised to obey. Taught to fear the truth. But when I cross over into the real world and meet a mysterious hybrid girl who shouldn’t exist, everything I thought I knew begins to unravel. The aliens aren’t the mindless monsters we were told. The real enemy… might be leading us from within. Now I’m caught between two worlds: one built on secrets, the other built on blood. And the fate of both may rest on the shoulders of a boy who was never meant to survive. They call me Voidborn. I call this… a reckoning.

What happens when Daxon Winter finds out his wife only married him due to a bet? In a world full of conglomerate riches and wealth, Daxon Winter is an orphan who lives like a measly peasant. He is nothing but a foot stool who has been stepped on repeatedly by the wealthy. Fortunately, he is opportune to marry Veronica Pierce, the daughter of a wealthy family but his life didn’t change for the good. He is turned into a joke, a laughing stock and a prey. All of a sudden, at a point where he cannot take it anymore, Daxon receives a great revelation about his identity and his true background. What happens when Daxon realizes he isn’t an orphan but a young master of a billion dollar family who can have the world in his hands? So, who would he take revenge on first?

Being given a choice, “Divorce Avery and we will save your daughter, Mia, refused she will die in the hospital” Jeremy wasn't having any other choice than to break the promise he made to his mother. “I finally know the truth, they are all doomed!” Jeremy had always been content with his modest lifestyle, living paycheck to paycheck and doing what he could to provide for his wife and daughter. But everything changed when Mia fell ill, and the mounting medical bills soon drained his savings. As if things couldn't get any worse, Avery's family seized the opportunity to demand a divorce, claiming that Jeremy was not worthy of their daughter and had only been a burden on the family. But little did they know, Jeremy was hiding a secret. A secret that could change everything including their lives and destinies.

David's wife, Sandra, can’t stand the thought of being married to a prisoner. Ashamed of both her husband and the stain his new reality might leave on her image, she rushes to file for divorce barely a day after his sentence begins. To her, it isn’t about loyalty or love, it’s about keeping her career spotless. But when a buried truth surfaces, Sandra learns that the very man she is desperate to cast off is the one who made it possible for her to rise to the top as CEO. She makes the bold choice to return. But discovers that her old position has been taken by the one person she fears the most; her ruthless boss. On the flip side, David is hardened. He is willing to do anything, even kill, to make sure she never reclaims the position.

For three years, I was nothing more than her janitor husband. She sneered at me, her family spat on me, and in the end, she shoved divorce papers into my hands and walked away with another man. But the world didn’t know the truth. I wasn’t just Alexander the nobody. I am Alexanderiel Warrick—the lost Centimillionaire King. At the bank, they laughed—until they saw the endless zeroes in my account. At the gala, her new lover bid eight million. I said, “Twenty-five.” The room went silent. Now elites bow. Women admire. And my ex-wife? She drowns in regret, watching the man she discarded rule the world she always dreamed of. “Alexander, please… I was wrong.” “Too late, Lila. The janitor you mocked is now the King you’ll never touch again.”

This is a story of betrayal, revenge and most of all, mystery. For the longest time, all I've ever known was... Darkness. I was born and brought up in a family of royals, in a world of thorns and scorn, hate and greed, lies and betrayal, selfishness and parasitism. It wasn't easy surviving on my own but I found my way, in the shadows where I belonged. Many would envy and seek out my lifestyle because it appeared luxurious, and glorious even but it really wasn't. I was trapped in a neverending fight for control and most of all, my life only to see my death encroach slowly, to the point I started having nightmares about it. I was even abandoned by my own father. Well... It didn't matter. Because at the end of the day, I survive in between the light and darkness. I survive... In the shadows.

“What the hell is going on!” Axel lost it demanding a response. “I am breaking up with you!” He stares at her as though she had grown horns trying to decipher the words that slipped from her lips. “Can you hear yourself? What is wrong with you?” He spat with utter frustration and hurt which she didn’t seem to care about one bit. “It’s over between us. We can’t be together. I am tired of having to make compromises. Being with you is a liability I can no longer live with—” she trails off. ••• Betrayed and left for dead, Axel Storm rises from the ashes with a mysterious ring that holds the key to his family's legacy and his own vengeance. After a brutal humiliation, Axel must get revenge while harness his power and wealth.

"It's over between us, Dylan, Don't you get it. I'm not in your class anymore..." "You're too broke for me. It's over..!!" Dylan was devastated after his four-year relationship ended abruptly. He couldn't help but think of all the efforts he had put in to make it work, only to be cheated on by his partner with a wealthy classmate. Dylan at his lowest received a notification from an unknown system. "Host detected!!" "Congratulations! You're the luckiest man among billions. You are chosen to be the Ultimate ruler of the infinite world!" "Initiating system pairing, paring begins!" "20% 50%...... 70% System paring according to host needs." "Analysis complete!!" "Transaction begins......" "Wow!! I'm definitely the most richest man in the world. I will repay all those that have hurt me!!"

Bang! The door was kicked open from the outside and three policemen came in holding guns. “What's happening?” Bruce had never been so confused in his entire life. The police ignored his question as they walked towards him, pointing the guns straight at him as one of them said “Don't try to do anything funny Mr Bruce Ortiz, do not move an inch.” “Hey I don't know what I did, what did I do?” Bruce looked around as though he could see an explanation of this written on the wall somewhere. “Mr Bruce Ortiz, you're under arrest for the theft of $750,000!” “What!” Bruce's eyes opened in shock “What the hell are y'all talking about? I've never stolen anybody's money in my life.”

Death, as the guide of all the souls leaving the physical world, takes the form of a human to speak with them. He has been wandering for a very long time that he, himself, doesn't know about his own existence. Ferrying billions of souls of humankind to the other side has been his job in a forever state that he can't escape. He considers himself a mere bystander, a storyteller—seeing histories unfold before his eyes, witnessing eras and wars end, watching humankind thriving. Endowed with a power of bringing deaths to humans upon touching them, he constantly seeks the feeling of physical human touch. Not until he meets Fivrelle, an immortal lady who desires death. The world is continuously evolving and growing. But to what extent? No matter what the world has become, Death will always be there, waiting.